On: Terminal Support for Emoji

[avgcorrection]

I think emojis in commit messages are very overrated.

But emojis are great in informal communication when you want to compensate for the fact that your words are completely divorced from inflection, tone, and body language.

[petepete → avgcorrection]

I once had a colleague who started every commit message with an emoji. It became tiring very quickly.

Still, the odd facepalm, bug or bomb once in a while doesn't really do any harm.

I use the robot emoji in my ~/.mailmap so I can easily identify bot commits (dependabot, snykbot etc) when scanning through commit logs locally.

[LorenDB → petepete]

Absolutely, emoji used spontaneously are great. When they are used as qualifiers or attributes constantly, it becomes just as bad as typing "feat:" or "chore:" or something similar in front of every commit message.